Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

We shall conquer every mountain in Jesus name Amen!

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.